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Be `it known that I, JAMES KING, of North Vernon, Jennings county, Stateof Indiana, have invented certain new and useful improvements inIfVashing Machines; and I do hereby declare the following descriptionand accompanying drawings are snicient to enable any person skilled inthe art or science to which it most yproperly appel-mins to make and usethe said invention or improvements without any further invention orexperiment. Y

The nature of my invention andimprovements consists in the combinationland arrangement of devices described in the following specification andrepresented in the drawings. In the accompanying drawings- .Figure 1 isan elevation of my machine with one side removed to showthe interior;

Figure 2 is a pla-n or top View.

rIn these drawings, A A are the sides, B the bottom, and C G the vendsof' the box or vat of' the machine, which is supported on. the fourlegs, D D, fastened to the sides A. In one end of this box Imake a holeto dra-w ofi' the water, and stop it with the plug E. I fasten. twocleats, F F, to the bottom of the box on the inside, te hold the lowerwash-boards G G, which kare grooved on their upper surfaces, as shown infig. 1, and fastened to the cleats F. I make a movable clothes-box, I-I,about half the length ofthe inside of the main box., and about twoinches and a half narrower, and fasten the bars I I to the end s, whichbars have pivots on t-h'eirends for, thc rollers J J, which-roll on thecleats K K, fastened tothe sides AA of the box, so as to hold tlie loweredges of the box H alittle distance above the lower wash-boards G G, asshown in fig. 1. The tops of the rollers J J are a little below the topof the box, and the strips L L are fastened to thc top of' the box andmade to project over the rollers, to hold the bo\Y H down as it istraversed in washing the clothes.` The box H is open at the bottom, andis provided with two standards, M M, at the top, which are connected bythe bar N, which is mortised for the stem P of the upper wash-board Q,which is fastened to the lower end of'thelstem P, and grooved on itsunder side, as s'hown in fig. 1, to act on the top of the clothes wliilethe wash-boards G G act on" the bottom of the clothes. ,'Ihe stein P isperforated with a series of holes, and'the board Q maybe raised up and apin pnt through the stein above the bar N, to hold it up while theclothes are pnt in or taken ont. The sides of the box H are made toproject beyond the ends at the top in the form of a bracket, and areconnected by the round bars R R, which are-seized by the washerwomanwhen she traverses the box H and board Q to wash the clothes.

To use my machine, I till the box with Water about three inches deepabove the top of the boards G G, and raise the board Q, and put theclothes to be washed intothe box H, and press them down with the boardQ, and fasten-it down by putting the pin through the stem P below thebar N, to hold the board-down on the clothes and press them against theboards G G while the bex H is traversed alternately in each direction bythe attendant, who seizes the bars R R to work the box and rub and rollthe clothes between the board Q and' the boards G G4 until they areclean.

Having described my improved washing machine- I claim the combinationand arrangement of the traversing bex l`with movable wash-board Q andstationary wash-boards G G, constructed to operate in the box or vat asdescribed.

' v JAMES KING.

AWitnesses:

HIRAM FEATHER, DAVID Snnnvn.

